The author focuses on the author William Faulkner whose idea of fixated on past has pedigree beginning with essay "On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner." Topics discussed include 1936 novel "Absalom, Absalom!," in which past changes moment depending on who is talking, arrival of the author Charles Bon in American literature leading to work of Faulkner and film "War Bird" by Faulkner.